Fruit-drier



(No Model.)

J. D. BURNETT & L. C. HILL.

FRUIT DRIER. No. 256,459. Patented Apr. 18,- 1882.

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JAMES D BURNETT AND LOUIS G. HILL, OF- MYRTLE (JREEK, OREGON.

FRUIT-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,459, dated April 18, 1882.

Application filed December 6, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES D. BURNETT and Lows O. HILL, of Myrtle Creek, in the county of Douglas and State of Oregon,hare invented new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Briers; and we dohereby declare that and arrangementof parts, as will be more specifically pointed out in the claim.

We designate the invention as the gran ger fruit-dri'em and the objects of the invention are to produce a maximum of heat and evaporating surface with a minimum of heat-surface; to provide separate chambers, so that the manipulation of removable trays in one chamber will not interfere with the temperaturein the others, and to provide air-inlets into the heating-chamber and an open top to the device.

To subse rve these ends the invention consists in a proper frame having two or more vertical chambers, upon vertical bars of each side of which are provided proper guideways,which furnish removable bearings for horizontal perfo-' rated or screened trays. Afurnace connected to the lower portion of the frame, extending partially into one of the said chambers, is connected to a heat-givin g pipe, which afi'ords heat to a heating-chamber located in the bot tom of the frame, and which has an exit-connection through the external chute, as shown.

lets. Each chamber has a separate and independent door, so that the operator while manipulating the trays in one chamber will not materially affect the temperature of the others. The trays are of such length as to allow such a distance between their "ends and the adjacent sides of the frame as to force the current of air alternately under each and over and through each.

.The invention is fully shown in the drawings, in which Figure lis a vertical longitudinal section; Fig. 2, a top plan view; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same.

Referring to the drawings, Arepresents the frame which forms chambers B, each of which The lower or heat chamber is provided with air-inlets L, and the upper portion is open, spaces being left between the slats M.

i What we claim is- The fruit-drier herein described, consisting of the case A, having inlets L and open'tops M,

the chambers B, having independent doors 0,

guides H, bars G, trays I, of shorter length than the transverse plane of the several chambers, arranged alternately, as 'shown, the furnace D, and'pipe E, leading through each of the chambers, all arranged and combined to operate asset forth.

JAMES D. BURNETT. Louis 0. HILL.

Witnesses:

BURGER HERMANN, W. S. CANAN. 

